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The Wild and Blues play tonight at 7:00 p.m., followed by the Stars and Blue Jackets at 9:00 p.m. on the NHL Network.

They are, in fact, turkey vultures. We live in Bismarck and, for the last 3 summers, we have had about 40-50 of them perched on a water tower near our house nightly. (And we live in the middle of town.) I have heard they hang out down by the river during the day. It is weird to watch them come in to roost for the evening, as they don't flap their wings much, they kind of just glide in for a landing. The first time it happened, we kind of freaked out because it started out with one or two and pretty soon the sky above our house was filled with these huge, gliding birds. It reminded me of a scene out of "The Birds". They are relatively harmless and don't make any noise (I think they can hiss?), but I guess they make quite a mess with their droppings, as they can be rather toxic to car finishes.

Unbeaten (in 18 games)

Karl Goehring (sticking with the Sioux goalie theme )

Bob Iwabuchi

Sioux Yeah Yeah!!

It is not your computer, seems to be my link. Thanks for posting the link. . .I will try to fix mine! (I am a bit of a novice when posting links.) Thanks again! (I believe I fixed it.)

Not sure if anyone saw this young man interviewed during the Pens/Flyers game on Sunday, but here is an article about him. It is very inspirational and I thought others would be interested in seeing it! Hopefully this link works. Teen is running out of innings, but the game isn't over - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Canada wins 5-4. Canada wins the Pool, going 3-0. US will finish at 2-1.

US has PP with just over 23 seconds to play. (Anderson on bench, so it will be 6 on 4.)

Canada scores on an odd man rush. Heatley with the goal. Canada up 5-4.

US ties it up (4-4) on another PP goal (Pominville).

US goes back on the PP. (Brown, Parise and O'Sullivan back on the ice.)

US scores PP goal to make it 3-4 (Canada). (Toews was in the box for high sticking.)

Canada now up 4-2 on a PP goal in the 3rd period. (Sorry - not a PP goal. Goal was scored just seconds after the PP ended.)

Stafford has an assist on O'Sullivan's goal (US's second goal).

O'Sullivan from Stafford makes it 3-2. US right back into the hockey game.

US now scores (Parise) to make it 3-1.

Canada now up 3-0 just a few seconds into the 2nd period. . . . that was their 7th shot. Yikes, pull Thomas now?

Good Lord. . . US outplaying Canada. . . but, Heatley scores to make it 2-0 with 8 seconds left in the first period. (Canada's 6th shot on goal).

Canada scores to make it 1-0. 8:26 into the 1st. (Toews is playing for Team Canada and Greene, Stafford, and Parise are all playing for USA.)

Listening to USA v. Canada game. . . . 0-0 right now, US on power play. Found it at www.fan960.com (Click on "listen live" at the top of the page), if anyone is interested.

Team ND lost 5-4 to Colorado this morning.

Thanks for doing your part to reduce Global Warming!!

Our group was at the Doubletree as well. We were more than pleased with the hotel. The rooms were nice and clean and the staff (at least the ones we spoke with), were very nice and more than accomodating. (The warm chocolate chip cookies at check-in were awesome!!) Our room had a very nice view of downtown Denver, as well as the mountains. (We actually thought the gal that made our reservations was lying to us about the mountain view, that is, until the smog cleared a bit on day #3. )The sports bar and Starbuck's right in the lobby didn't hurt either! Both came in handy on more than one occasion. All-in-all, we had a lot of fun in Denver.